William Orbit - Strange Cargo III (1993)

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Release Date: 1993
Label: I.R.S. Records
Format: CD, Albumn
Genre: Electronica, Ambient

Tracklist:
1. Water From a Vine Leaf
2. Into the Paradise
3. Time to Get Wize
4. Harry Flowers
5. Touch of the Night
6. Story of Light
7. Gringatcho Demento
8. Hazy Shade of Random
9. Best Friend, Paranoia
10. Monkey King
11. Deus Ex Machina
12. Water Babies

The last and best of the Strange Cargo albums, III matches elegant sequencer trance and understated organic instruments (piano, guitar) with ethnic-fusion and soft house rhythms. It's the only Strange Cargo record featuring vocals, with Beth Orton making an early appearance (more earth mother than neo-folky) on the beautiful ambient-trance single "Water From a Vine Leaf." "Into the Paradise" and "The Story of Light" are variations on the same form, while Orbit borrows from hip-hop and dub for "Time to Get Wize," with the toasting of Divine Bashim. While still tied to the '80s Fourth World aesthetic of its predecessors, on Strange Cargo III Orbit begins moving toward a more completely electronic form of music in keeping with the productions of his Guerilla label.